Remington all but buried the Roberts in 1969 when it introduced the .25-06 Remington, a 30-06 case necked down to take a 25-caliber bullet. Nevertheless, the shooting community retains a nostalgic ...

Both the Remington 700 and Winchester Model 70 top the list of the best hunting rifles of all time, ... I also had an all-stainless .257 Roberts that I dropped in an HS Precision stock.

It was replaced in 1955 by Remington’s Model 740, a modern, sleek, gas-operated semi-automatic that was chambered in popular bolt-action rifle cartridges such as .30-’06 Sprg.

During World War I, Remington, along with several other private firms, was contracted to produce large quantities of Model 1917 bolt-action rifles, chambered in .30-'06 Sprg., for the U.S. war effort.